Given That N Is the Number of Trials of a Random

question 41

Multiple Choice

Given that n is the number of trials of a random experiment, N is population size, M is the number of population units with the "success" characteristic, and p is the probability of success in the first trial, the mean of the hypergeometric random variable's probability distribution always equals:

• A) n
• B) np
• C) n(N/M)
• D) none of these

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